diff --git a/assets/scss/general.scss b/assets/scss/general.scss
index 9ac20fe..36728e3 100644
--- a/assets/scss/general.scss
+++ b/assets/scss/general.scss
@@ -4,45 +4,17 @@
 /* accomodate a blog-like site. */
 /* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ */
 
-/* When setting the primary font stack, apply it to the Pure grid units along */
-/* with `html`, `button`, `input`, `select`, and `textarea`. Pure Grids use */
-/* specific font stacks to ensure the greatest OS/browser compatibility. */
-html,
-button,
-input,
-select,
-textarea,
-p,
-nav,
-section,
-article,
-header,
-footer,
-.pure-g [class*="pure-u"] {
-    font-family: et-book, "Noto Serif SC", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", "Book Antiqua", Georgia, serif, "Noto Emoji";
-}
-
-p {
-    text-align: justify;
-}
-
-code {
-    font-family: Menlo, Meslo, Courier, monospace;
-    font-size: 1.125rem;
-    line-height: 1.6;
-}
-
-.sidenote,
-.marginnote {
-    margin-right: -55%;
-    width: 45%;
-}
-
-
 /* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ */
 /* Generic content, such as the index list pages */
 /* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ */
 
+hr {
+    margin-left: 0;
+    width: 75%;
+    max-width: 45rem;
+    border-color: rgba(250,250,250,0.25);
+}
+
 /* Content Title styling.  This is mostly to avoid underlying links. */
 h1.content-title {
     /*max-width: 50rem;*/
@@ -54,12 +26,6 @@ h1.content-title a:visited {
     text-decoration: none;
     color: inherit;
 }
-h1.content-title a:hover,
-h1.content-title a:focus {
-    color: darkgray;
-}
-
-
 
 /* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ */
 /* Styling for listing pages. */
diff --git a/assets/scss/vendor/tufte.scss b/assets/scss/vendor/tufte.scss
index 46f7b2f..1db8132 100644
--- a/assets/scss/vendor/tufte.scss
+++ b/assets/scss/vendor/tufte.scss
@@ -327,6 +327,7 @@ div.table-wrapper {
     letter-spacing: 0.03em;
 }
 
+code,
 .code {
     font-family: Consolas, "Liberation Mono", Menlo, Courier, monospace;
     font-size: 1.125rem;
diff --git a/layouts/_default/single.html b/layouts/_default/single.html
index 75a6ccb..584ea13 100644
--- a/layouts/_default/single.html
+++ b/layouts/_default/single.html
@@ -6,14 +6,12 @@
 
 {{ define "main" }}
 <div id="layout" class="pure-g">
-  <article class="pure-u-1">
-    {{ partial "brand.html" . }}
-    {{ partial "content.header.html" . }}
-    {{ partial "toc.html" . }}
-    <section>{{ .Content }}</section>
-    <section>
-      {{ partial "footer.html" . }}
-    </section>
-  </article>
+<article class="pure-u-1">
+  {{ partial "content.header.html" . }}
+  {{ partial "toc.html" . }}
+  <section>{{ .Content }}</section>
+  <section>{{ partial "footer.html" . }}</section>
+  <section>{{ partial "nav.html" . }}</section>
+</article>
 </div>
-{{ end }}
\ No newline at end of file
+{{ end }}
diff --git a/layouts/partials/brand.html b/layouts/partials/brand.html
index 9dd58d1..b112633 100644
--- a/layouts/partials/brand.html
+++ b/layouts/partials/brand.html
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <header class="brand">
-  <a href="{{ .Site.BaseURL }}"><h1>{{ .Site.Title}}</h1></a>
-  <h2>{{ .Site.Params.subtitle }}</h2>
-  {{ partial "nav.html" . }}
-  <hr />
+<a href="{{ .Site.BaseURL }}"><h1>{{ .Site.Title}}</h1></a>
+<h2>{{ .Site.Params.subtitle }}</h2>
+{{ partial "nav.html" . }}
+<hr />
 </header>
diff --git a/layouts/partials/content.header.html b/layouts/partials/content.header.html
index f81fc9a..813dcd3 100644
--- a/layouts/partials/content.header.html
+++ b/layouts/partials/content.header.html
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
 
 <h1 class="content-title">
   {{ if .IsNode }}
-  <a href="{{ .Permalink }}">{{ .Title }}</a>
+  {{ .Title }}
   {{ else }}
-  <a href="{{ .RelPermalink }}">{{ .Title }}{{ if .Draft }} :: Draft {{end}}</a>
+  {{ .Title }}{{ if .Draft }} :: Draft {{end}}
   {{ end }}
 </h1>
 
@@ -16,23 +16,19 @@
   {{ if or (eq .Type "post") (.Params.meta)  }}
     <span class="content-meta">
       {{ if .Params.author }}
-        <i class="fa fa-user">&nbsp;</i><span class="author">
-          &nbsp;{{ .Params.author }}</span> <br>
+      <span class="author">{{ .Params.author }}</span><br />
       {{ end }}
 
       {{ if not .Params.hidedate }}
-        <i class="fa fa-calendar"></i>
-        &nbsp;{{ .Date.Format "Jan 2, 2006" }}
+      {{ .Date.Format "2006-01-02" }}
       {{end }}
 
       {{ if not .Params.hidereadtime }}
-        &nbsp;<i class="fa fa-clock-o"></i>
-        &nbsp;{{ .ReadingTime }} min read
+      {{ .ReadingTime }} min read
       {{ end }}
 
       {{ if .Params.categories }}
         <br>
-        <i class="fa fa-tags"> </i>
         {{ range .Params.categories }}
           <a  href="{{ "/categories/" | absURL }}{{ . | urlize }}">{{ . }}</a>
         {{ end }}
diff --git a/layouts/partials/footer.html b/layouts/partials/footer.html
index 7c1c6d3..b2f490e 100644
--- a/layouts/partials/footer.html
+++ b/layouts/partials/footer.html
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <footer class="page-footer">
-<hr>
+<hr />
 
 <div class="previous-post" style="display:inline-block;">
   {{ if .PrevPage }}
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@
 </p>
 {{ end }}
 
+{{ if or ( isset .Site.Params "copyright" ) ( isset .Site.Params "copyrightHolder" ) }}
 <div class="copyright">
 <p>
   {{ with .Site.Params.copyright }}
@@ -86,5 +87,6 @@
   {{end}}
 </p>
 </div>
+{{ end }}
 
 </footer>
diff --git a/layouts/partials/header.includes.html b/layouts/partials/header.includes.html
index 34d5ab0..0085298 100644
--- a/layouts/partials/header.includes.html
+++ b/layouts/partials/header.includes.html
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/normalize.css@8.0.1/normalize.css">
+<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/normalize.css@8.0.1/normalize.min.css" crossorigin="anonymous" />
 <!-- Pure css -->
-<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://unpkg.com/purecss@2.0.6/build/pure-min.css">
+<!-- <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/purecss@3.0.0/build/pure-min.css" crossorigin="anonymous" /> -->
 
 <!-- Fonts -->
 <!-- <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans"> -->
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 </noscript>
 
 <!-- Font Awesome -->
-<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/5.14.0/css/all.css">
+<!-- <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/5.14.0/css/all.css"> -->
 
 {{ $htoptions := (dict "targetPath" "/css/hugo-tufte.min.css" "outputStyle" "compressed" "enableSourceMap" true) }}
 {{ $htstyle := resources.Get "scss/hugo-tufte.scss"| resources.ExecuteAsTemplate "main.scss" .  | resources.ToCSS $htoptions }}
diff --git a/layouts/partials/shortcodes/button.html b/layouts/partials/shortcodes/button.html
index b5a3f20..d80b27c 100644
--- a/layouts/partials/shortcodes/button.html
+++ b/layouts/partials/shortcodes/button.html
@@ -31,9 +31,6 @@
   {{- if eq $style "tip" }}{{ $icon = default "lightbulb" }}{{ end }}
 {{- end }}
 {{- $icon = trim $icon " " }}
-{{- if and $icon (not (findRE ".*?\\bfa-\\w.*?" $icon)) }}
-  {{- $icon = printf "fa-fw fas fa-%s" $icon }}
-{{- end }}
 {{- $iconposition := .iconposition | default "left" }}
 {{- with $context }}
 <span class="btn cstyle {{ $style }}"{{ if $color }} style="--VARIABLE-BOX-color: {{ $color }};"{{ end }}>
@@ -43,11 +40,11 @@
   <a{{ if $href }} href="{{ $href }}"{{ if gt (len $target) 0 }} target="{{ $target }}"{{ end }}{{ end }}>
   {{- end }}
     {{- if and $icon (eq $iconposition "left") }}
-    <i class="{{ $icon }}"></i>
+    {{ $icon }}
     {{- end }} 
     {{ $title | safeHTML }}
     {{- if and $icon (eq $iconposition "right") }}
-    <i class="{{ $icon }}"></i>
+    {{ $icon }}
     {{- end }}
   {{- if $isButton }}
   </button>
diff --git a/layouts/partials/toc.html b/layouts/partials/toc.html
index 8fd4d1a..08316c1 100644
--- a/layouts/partials/toc.html
+++ b/layouts/partials/toc.html
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {{ if .Params.toc  }}
 <section>
   <details closed class="toc">
-    <summary>Contents</summary>
+    <summary>Table of Contents</summary>
     {{ .TableOfContents }}
   </details>
 </section>